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discuss the importance of employer branding and how it can help in the recruitment and selection of people. Additionally, think of an organization you believe has a positive employer brand. In your post name the organization and state why you think this organization has a positive employer brand.

Respiratory Alterations

In clinical settings, patients often present with various respiratory symptoms such as congestion, coughing, and wheezing. While identifying a symptom’s underlying illness can be challenging, it is essential because even basic symptoms such as persistent coughing can be a sign of a more severe disorder. Advanced practice nurses must be able to differentiate between moderate and severe respiratory disorders, as well as properly diagnose and prescribe treatment for their patients. For this reason, you must have an understanding of the pathophysiology of respiratory disorders.
Identify the pathophysiology of the alteration that you associated with the cough.
•Select two of the following factors: genetics, gender, ethnicity, or behavior. Reflect on how the factors you selected might impact the disorder.

Post on or before Day 3 a description of the disorder and underlying respiratory alteration associated with the type of cough in your selected scenario. Then, explain the pathophysiology of the respiratory alteration. Finally, explain how the factors you selected might impact the disorder.

Recongnizing and being able to treat Delirium on a Cardiac Unit

 

The purpose of this assignment is for you to develop a project that advances the knowledge base of clients and/or staff, or the clinical practice base of those working ion the cardiac unit. This assignment consists of two parts 1) the actual presentation of information to the target audience and 2) a summary scholarly paper addressing all aspects of the project. This project is to be germane to the clinical setting and based on current scholarly evidence.

The knowledge advancement project has four critical components: a knowledge needs assessment; a plan based on the needs assessment findings; implementation of the plan; and an evaluation of the plan’s effectiveness.

Begin by brainstorming about needs for increased knowledge in your clinical practice area, including clients and/or staff or the clinical practice base of those working in the area. (RECOGNIZING DELIRIUM IN OUR CARDIAC PATIENTS)
Conduct a formal needs assessment on your chosen knowledge deficit topic. This needs assessment can take the form of a literature review, a survey of the key players (clients, staff, and/or professional specialty association), or a review of current resources on the topic.

The outcome of the needs assessment must be clearly articulated and supported with your assessment research and scholarly references.

Plan a strategy to address the knowledge deficit for the target audience. Include your overall goals, specific learning objectives, content, and method of content delivery in your plan. Document your goals, objectives and content outline. Choose a delivery method that best fits the needs, goals, objectives and content you identified. Provide rationale for the chosen delivery method in your plan based on scholarly references.

Implement your plan. Deliver your content to the target audience. This includes setting the date, time, and place for your implementation, as well as preparing all of the resources you will need to deliver the content.

Evaluate the effectiveness of your plan implementation. Choose an evaluation strategy that matches your chosen implementation method. Support your choice of evaluation strategy with scholarly references.
Marking Criteria

All of the required content elements are clearly addressed in the project.
The project needs assessment, plan and evaluation are all submitted to your preceptor in a format negotiated with him/her.
The preceptor is included in the audience for the project implementation.
The project rationale is clearly supported with scholarly references.
The project is delivered in a scholarly format, whether it is written, verbal, multimedia, or a combination of these methods.
The project advances the knowledge base of the target audience.

Major Report & Video Summary

2. Produce a report that addresses the issues presented in the case in relation to marketing
strategy:
a. Provide a concise overview of the current market situation.
b. Provide a statement of the main problem, with explanation, and offer an analysis of
macro and micro level issues that are relevant.
c. Identify and justify all critical factors, explaining which are most important.
d. Offer a set of recommendations for addressing the problem, giving your rationale with
justification, and considering the critical factors identified. Include a discussion of
possible advantages/disadvantages of your recommended solution. Ensure your answer
coherently addresses the problem and is not just a list of independent suggestions.
e. You will need to consult the popular and business press in researching your case. You
should also review the academic peer‐reviewed literature, particularly when developing
your recommendations. These literatures must be cited in your work and appropriately
referenced using APA referencing. Check QUT Cite|
3. Produce a short video which succinctly summarises the key elements of your report. The
video should coherently convey any necessary information about the current situation, main
problem, and critical factors, which leads to your recommendation. Your recommendation
should also be outlined and discussed. There is no expectation that videos will be of
commercial quality (i.e., recording of an in‐class type presentation is fine). It is expected that
videos will demonstrate students’ ability to succinctly communicate ideas in a professional
manner.
4. Submit by the due date/time.

Week 1assignment

After reading the assignments for week one, please write a 2-3 page paper outlining the importance of using strategy in implementing policies and procedures in an organization. Also, identify any organizational issue and discuss why policies and procedures are important in addressing the issue you identified. Please use APA standards and provide within text citations and a reference list.

Leadership Effectiveness Application

a 6 – 7 page paper that identifies four (4) important insights gained into organizational dynamics,
and how you have or will apply them to enhance your leadership effectiveness. A well-constructed paper
will reference 4 or more scholarly sources including 3 peer-reviewed journal articles retrieved from
Brandman’s virtual library, and adhere to APA standards. As outlined in the rubric below, your paper
should address the following:
• Use course theories and concepts to identify 4 significant insights gained into organizational
dynamics that has changed your behavior and/or thinking; define and discuss the value and
importance of the theories and concepts to leadership effectiveness.
• Assess your current effectiveness as a leader, and describe how and why the application of the
insights gained will improve your leadership practice.
• Create a specific action plan based on the insights gained from course theories and concepts to
improve your leadership effectiveness

Assignment is intended for you to reflect critically on the potential application of crowdfunding for entrepreneurial ventures

Topic: The Assignment is intended for you to reflect critically on the potential application of crowdfunding for entrepreneurial ventures.e. It should discuss Entrepreneurship theory and relate it to crowdfunding using your personal experience of working on a designated crowdfunding campaign.
In this respect, you are expected to develop a discussion on the topics below using critical thinking and examples to support your arguments.
. 1) Entrepreneurship theory such as characteristics of an entrepreneur, ideation and innovation;
. 2) Crowdfunding theory such as the dynamics of a crowd, the funding mechanism and how to structure a project campaign;
. 3) Designated crowdfunding campaign including challenges, opportunities and personal development from experience;
. 4) Application of crowdfunding to entrepreneurial ventures including how an entrepreneur would use crowdfunding for a new venture;
Whether you believe or not that crowdfunding is appropriate for all or some entrepreneurs, it is important that you are aware of its possibilities and evaluate its potential use for entrepreneur ventures.
Thus you are required to:
– Develop critical discussion of theory related to Entrepreneurship and crowdfunding where you provide demonstrable evidence of your arguments supported and illustrated by relevant examples. .
– Develop critical discussion of practice using your experience in the designated crowdfunding campaign to explain what may worked well or may worked less well;
– Make the link between theory and practice using your discussion of theory and your experience in the designated crowdfunding campaign to critically evaluate how crowdfunding may be applied towards entrepreneurial ventures.
In summary, you reflect on “learning by doing” as you are well-placed to use your crowdfunding experience to evaluate crowdfunding as a tool for entrepreneurs and Entrepreneurship.

1. Entrepreneurship Theory
Evidence of wide-ranging reading with critical discussion of theory to evaluate different topics using examples; (20%)
2. Crowdfunding Theory
Evidence of wide-ranging reading with critical discussion of theory to evaluate different topics using examples; (20%)
3. Crowdfunding Experience
Critical discussion of personal role in designated project campaign and feedback about role from project leader; (20%)
4. Application to New Venture
Critical discussion about how an entrepreneur can apply crowdfunding to a new venture including opportunities, challenges and examples; (30%)
5. Presentation & Style
Appropriate report structure with referencing and clear writing style. (10%)

Week 1

ANSWER QUESTION 1 ANDQUESTION 2 AND 3 SEPARTELY. PLEASE DO NOT ANSWER TOGEHER AS A WHOLE. EACH QUESTION NEEDS TO BE A PAGE LONG OR LONGER

Question 1–Based on the reading assignment this week, respond to the two following questions:
Deresky, H (2013). International Management, Management Across Borders. 8th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall
CHAPTERS 1 AND TWO
a) In your opinion; what are the pros and cons of globalization?

b)How has the economic downturn impacted trends in protectionism and nationalism?

QUESTION 2—Following the completion of this week�s reading/lessons assignments, complete each of the following:
� Write a one-two sentence personal definition of strategic planning. Base your definition on what you have encountered in the reading/materials this week, as well as on what you have already learned about the topic.
� Discuss this statement by Roger L. Martin: “. . . good strategy is not the product of hours of careful research and modeling that lead to an inevitable and almost perfect conclusion. Instead, it�s the result of a simple and quite rough-and-ready process of thinking through what it would take to achieve what you want and then assessing whether it�s realistic to try. If executives adopt this definition, then maybe, just maybe, they can keep strategy where it should be: outside the comfort zone.�
� Finally, describe the differences between strategic planning and business planning.

QUESTION 3–Go to our course textbook (Thompson, Peteraf, Gamble & Strickland, 2015), Part 2, Case 3, and read the case regarding Whole Foods Market (C-11 � C-39). From the case, identify the elements of the Whole Foods Market strategy as you compare what they do with the actions and business approaches detailed in Figure 1.1 on page 5 of our text. As you construct your post, answer the following questions, being as specific as possible: 1. What are the key elements of the Whole Foods strategy, and which of the five most frequently used and dependable approaches best represents Whole Foods in this case?
B.)How well does the strategy enable the company to achieve a sustainable competitive advantage? Explain.
C) Why does the strategy result in better company performance? Explain.
Finally, based on your assessment, what can you apply to organizational work in your sector from what you see from this case?

Family of Origin

Purpose of this assignment: This assignment has become a �classic� assignment in the USC School of Social Work program. In order for you to help your clients and their familial patterns, you need to have done this work on a personal level as well. By understanding your family and who you are within this family context you are able to identify counter-transference reactions with your clients which is an ethical responsibility of social work practice. Many social workers believe, �you cannot bring a client further than you have brought yourself�. By exploring and reflecting on our own experiences, including factors of resilience and risk, this assignment will highlight ways in which we can be more empathetic towards ourselves and others.
General instructions: This assignment requires you to apply the concepts and theories discussed in Social Work class to your family of origin. In order to complete this assignment you will need to conduct at least two interviews of family members. You may interview parents, grandparents, siblings, aunts, uncles, or cousins. Please discuss confidentiality with your interviewees, get permission to use the interview material, and offer to change names if they so desire.
Instructions for paper:
Section one: (One page) Produce a detailed *Genogram of your family of origin covering at least three generations.
two: (3-4 pages) Please choose 3-4 items from the list below and conduct a systemic analysis of your family of origin from a structural and systems perspective.

1. Boundaries
2. Hierarchies, power
3. Subsystems
4. Alliances (coalitions, camps)
5. Rules (implicit and explicit)
6. Attachment styles
7. Family myths
8. Significant losses
9. Communication styles and patterns
10. Resources
11. Intergenerational patterns
You must give specific behavioral examples to back up your analysis. For example, it is not sufficient to state that there were strong intergenerational boundaries, rather, you should discuss the specific behaviors that demonstrated that those boundaries existed.

Section three: (2-4 pages) Select an underlying theme that may characterize your family which has influenced your empathy towards others. You may or may not have discussed it in section 2. For example, you may not have discussed immigration or poverty in section 2 but would like to make this your theme in this section. Research this theme and discuss how it impacts families in general and specifically impacted your family. You may create your own theme or select from the following list:

1. The effects of alcoholism or addiction on the family
2. Gay and lesbian families
3. Blended family issues
4. Single-parent family
5. The effects of violence or abuse
6. Poverty and the family
7. Family secrets
8. Legacies of loss
9. The role of ritual in the family
10. Birth order
11. Cultural themes
12. The effects of mental or physical illness on the family
13. Gender roles within the family
14. Family stories and the construction of meaning
15. Models of marriage
16. Enmeshment and disengagement
17. Emotional milieu within the family

In completing this section you will need to cite at least three scholarly articles and/or books that address the theme you are discussing. You will also need to give specific behavioral examples to illustrate your theme as it plays out in your family of origin.
Papers should be double spaced, APA 6th Edition, 12 point Times New Roman Font, 1� margins. Papers may be written in the 1st person and must include a minimal of 6 scholarly works (at least 3 in Section 3).